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N785QS, a Gulfstream Aerospace GV-SP (G550)
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026
N785QS

Gulfstream Aerospace GV-SP (G550)

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesCalifornia

N785QS is a Gulfstream Aerospace GV-SP (G550), a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2007. It has 20 seats. It is registered to Savannah Belle LLC, an LLC in Santa Cruz, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 31, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for market survey, dated October 17, 2007.

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Aircraft

Maker
Gulfstream Aerospace
Model
GV-SP (G550) · all GV-SP (G550)s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Gulfstream GV-SP (G550) family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
5157
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Rolls Deut BR700-710C411 · 15,385 lb thrust
Fuel
Jet A
Seats
20
Year built
2007
Transponder code
AAA488 (octal 52522210)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 31, 2025
Expires
December 31, 2032
Last FAA action
December 31, 2025
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Market surveyFAA certificate purpose code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 17, 2007
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00288569

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Savannah Belle LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
340 Woodpecker Rdg
Santa Cruz, CA 95060-9797

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N785QS links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Santa Cruz, CA 116 aircraft registered in this town
  • California 28,158 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N785QS.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N785QS, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Savannah Belle LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 31, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for market survey, dated October 17, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5157 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N785QS according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N785QS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data